The last thing to check is your rendering quality because yes it CAN be different here than in your template. It's not a whole lot different, and if you've picked the Lagarith codec, you probably won't need to change anything here other than the framerate.īut no matter which route you go, be sure to click on the project tab: If you go the AVI route, here's what you'll see. I suggest exporting with Lagarith as sony vegas's "Uncompressed" codec will fill your hard drive faster than Fraps ever could. If you wanna make an uncompressed AVI to use in AVISynth or MeGUI later, that's cool too. Theoretically any setting should be fine as long as you pick an appropriate bitrate. I have never gotten two-pass to work, Vegas just crashes whenever I try it. 30 is what you would want for most projects. Make sure it's the same as your source files. You can pick Baseline or Main here, but I go with Main. If the frame size shown here is not what your source files are, this is your last chance to change it. Click on Custom, which brings us to the screen below.
You can load the file settings you just set, just to double check.I prefer MP4, you can export to AVI if you prefer MeGUI or if you want to do some AVISynth work later on. (If templates is ever totally empty, DO NOT RENDER because that means Vegas is gonna crash as soon as you hit save.) Go to File > Render As and this fun window will pop up. This is what things should look like when you're all done. 44,100 Hz is perfect for whatever you need to do. It'll automatically start every new project with this template's settings so that you don't have to do this a thousand times.Īudio we can leave alone. Name your template, save it as whatever you want, and then check this box.It might work really well for all I know but I don't know, so I suggest deinterlacing with a different program. As I've never used any source clips from a console, I've never needed to use deinterlacing.This is "rendering quality" but Sony decided to make it backwards.Setting this to 30 is good for most things you'd be doing.
It's a dropbox, but you can type in whatever (which is good since there's no 30 FPS option in the dropdown list). I've only ever really dealt with Fraps clips though so that's all I need. Pixel Aspect Ratio I generally leave at 1.0.Set it to whatever your source video files are. This is your video resolution, obviously.You can save these settings for later so that you don't have to change them each time. You should now see something that looks like the screenshot above. The first thing you want to do is go to File > New. Once you've opened it up and the splash screen is gone, you should see something like this: If you were working on something it'll just load the last project file you saved (Always save your project file before you go to render.) For the purposes of this, we'll start a new project.
This guide will be about how to make sure that the editing you did is not buried under frame tweening and interlacing. I'm using Vegas 9.0c and I'm gonna assume that you already know how to do editing with it.
I'm here to show you how to prevent Sony Vegas from creating a terrible video. I lacked the patience to learn AVISynth and I already know my way around Vegas. It's not even close to being worth the absurdly high price they're asking for it. Half the time I can't even import media without restarting the program. It's really buggy and the default settings will screw you over. So there's alot of hate in the TSF thread for Sony Vegas.